Teaching Entrepreneurship
The Center for Entrepreneurial studies received The Journal Record's 2008 Innovator of the Year award |
Why teach entrepreneurship? Because entrepreneurs are serial problem-solvers who create ventures to solve inefficiencies. They constantly revolutionize our economy and make a better life for us. People today live longer and healthier lives than kings of previous generations. Michael S. Malone, in a Wall Street Journal article titled the next american frontier put it best.
Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more secure than a full–time job. Today, 80% of the colleges and universities in the U.S. now offer courses on entrepreneurship; 60% of Gen Y business owners consider themselves to be serial entrepreneurs,according to Inc. magazine. Tellingly, 18– to 24–year–olds are starting companies at a faster rate than 35– to 44–year–olds. And 70% of today's high schoolers intend to start their own companies, according to a Gallup poll. An upcoming wave of new workers in our society will never work for an established company if they can help it. To them, having a traditional job is one of the biggest career failures they can imagine. America as an entrepreneurial nation will reward each of us with greater independence – and perhaps even greater happiness – than ever before. It waits out there for each of us. Being good entrepreneurs, it's time to look ahead, develop a good plan, and bet everything on ourselves.